wladimir

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901.
by wladimir 15y ago
Maybe they just think his rant is incoherent, of low quality, or don't think "why XXX will fail" rants are positive to have on HN.
902.
by wladimir 15y ago
Ah, there's our resident naysayer. So not only IPv6 will fail, but bitcoin too? Some ideas are just too crazy but they do work out. History is full of these. You could argue those are the ideas with potential to change the world. Anyway, on
903.
by wladimir 15y ago
Not necessarily. To quote the cliche, OSS is free as in freedom not free as in free beer.
904.
by wladimir 15y ago
Indeed, if you're generating the HTML/XML stream as tokens instead of as plain text, the context-sensitive quoting can be done automatically. When I do have to generate HTML as text I usually go with escaping &<>"' and I double
905.
by wladimir 15y ago
Oh no, not another SCM. My head is already bursting from learning Hg and Git... Also I don't think "lack of rebase" is a feature. If you don't want it in git, just forbid using it for your project. However, if you want to maintain a patch-s
906.
by wladimir 15y ago
Even if the default is to only accept messages from friends, worms certainly spread this way. If you want an example, see one of the MSN worms: they simply send a link, which if clicked it sends the worm through to all of the people in the
907.
by wladimir 15y ago
If you don't agree with the idea that wealth should be distributed according to contribution -- I never said that. Wealth should indeed be distributed according to contribution, but contribution is not that easily measurable. There are a
908.
by wladimir 15y ago
Don't try to turn this into a strawman communism versus capitalism discussion. I think most would agree that some inequality is good. After all, people are not equal. However, a too high degree of inequality will fuel social unrest. It le
909.
by wladimir 15y ago
Ever since 2007/2008 GPUs and CPUs are converging, and it is inevitable that at a certain moment even some kernel computations are best left to the GPU. Regarding security, these days, GPUs have memory isolation and protection. This is how
910.
by wladimir 16y ago
Another advantage of ARM is a simpler and more straightforward instruction set, unburdened by level after level of legacy. This makes both compilers and chips simpler, more efficient, easier to design and less bug-prone. There is nothing su
911.
by wladimir 16y ago
Indeed, it has all been done before with ASN.1. ASN.1 was invented for the exact same reason: data-efficient, fast communication. Currently it is mainly in use by telecom. I've also wondered why so many re-inventions of the wheel what is ba
912.
by wladimir 16y ago
That's true. Most try to focus on one language, instead of including everything. LLVM might be closest to an universal open source JIT platform. It is used as the backend of many of the language-specific VMs.
913.
by wladimir 16y ago
Different people have different preferences. This has always been the case, and is equally true for user interfaces. I don't see why you have to drag autism into this.
914.
by wladimir 16y ago
I think the rationale is that some ISPs offer their customers IPv6 as well as IPv4, with IPv4 behind a proxy/NAT and IPv6 routed directly. In this case, the latency for IPv6 will be lower/better.
915.
by wladimir 16y ago
There is quite a lot of outrage over it. But on the other hand, people feel powerless to do anything against these kind of things. There is so much to be outraged about. The current course of events, resulting in more and more restrictions
916.
by wladimir 16y ago
Define "good one"? Personally, I don't like the heavy Java and C# VMs at all. Browser javascript VMs seem to be much more lightweight, which is good for interactive clients, and lately with NodeJS they gain a lot of momentum server-side too
917.
by wladimir 16y ago
Right, the idea is only a small part of the equation, actually getting it to a state that people like it is the other. These ideas are probably simply the most popular startup ideas. Which means they also fail the most. Or simply, no one go
918.
by wladimir 16y ago
"Javascript with JIT" seems to be the most popular new VM. I loathe to admit it, but I at the moment it appears that's where most GUI scripting will go eventually. Apart from that, there is of course PyPy, which is "Python with JIT", and pr
919.
by wladimir 16y ago
He has the thread model backwards. If your advisary already can modify files on your computer, you have other things to worry about than SSL being compromised through the network. The malware could just as well intercept your data before
920.
by wladimir 16y ago
Huh, what is this 'soundcard' thing he's talking about... I haven't used a soundcard for more than 5 years. The last soundcard I bought was an SB AWE128, which I think was something like 10 years ago... After that, the motherboard integrate
921.
Python bytecode archeology(blog.visucore.com)
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922.
by wladimir 16y ago
The fundamental problem with DRM is that it burdens legal buyers, but not people that use a pirated version. So the more restrictive the DRM, the more your actual customers suffer. Suddenly, you can play something only on a restricted set o
923.
by wladimir 16y ago
I used LaTeX when writing papers for my PHD thesis. After that, I haven't really touched it. It is great for scientific books and papers (especially the $math$ is superb), but it is just too complicated for the usually simple documents I wr
924.
by wladimir 16y ago
They might or might not be underestimating, but it is an interesting experiment nevertheless with potentially huge impact. It's easy to be a naysayer in advance, but it worked out for Wikipedia.
925.
by wladimir 16y ago
Well, the warnings are only shown once. Once you import the self-signed certificate into your keystore, it never bothers you again (unless the certificate changes). This is the right workflow you should follow with self-signed certificates,
926.
by wladimir 16y ago
Close. More like 'when a machine does it it's less useful than when a human does it because blablabla', basically because it doesn't have the "feeling".
927.
by wladimir 16y ago
Because with HTTP, there is no assumption of security at the side of the user, or at least there shouldn't be. With HTTPS (and the "lock symbol") there is. The people that really know what they're doing can click through the warnings and st
928.
by wladimir 16y ago
I don't think there is any doubt that even with a self-signed certificate, HTTPS is more secure than HTTP. At the least, it makes interception/sniffing/modification a bit harder. Security, after all, is about making attacks more difficult a
929.
by wladimir 16y ago
Yes. I'd certainly value recipes that follow from using Erlang in real life. Especially if it contains succinct ways of solving common problems like the Python Cookbook, which is by far my favorite technical book.
930.
by wladimir 16y ago
Why would you need floating point arithmetic for anything? You can do all mathematical operations with fixed point just as well. And using relative coordinates everywhere might not be practical either. I don't understand why you are defen

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